Erik Vincent Huey w/ Power Forward, Eric Ambel, Starbelly in Morgantown

Schedule

Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

123 Pleasant Street | Morgantown, WV

Come celebrate the album release of Morgantown native ERIK VINCENT HUEY’s Brand New Album—FORT DEFIANCE Feb 11!
Erik will be playing to the hometown crowd, with supporting act Morgantown hip-hop funk virtuosos Power Forward. In addition, Erik will be joined by producer, “The Godfather of Americana” Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, the legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll guitarist (Joan Jett, Del-Lords, Steve Earle & The Dukes) and producer (Bottle Rockets, Jimbo Mathus, Yayhoos, Sarah Borges). Baltimore power pop phenoms Starbelly, who toured the US and internationally with Erik after his last album, will be backing him during his set.
The new album also features guest vocal appearances by Tommy Stinson (The Replacements, Guns & Roses) and Sarah Borges.
Fort Defiance was recorded at Ambel’s Cowboy Technical Services in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed solo debut Appalachian Gothic, hailed by Americana UK as “the Appalachian Tommy” and garnering a 4.5 / 5 star review by American Songwriter, who called the album a “mesmerizing, major work.”
The son of four generations of coal miners, Erik grew up along the banks of the Monongahela River in West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. He came of age listening to The Clash, X and the Sex Pistols, but never truly escaped his Appalachian roots.
From the cowpunk on-ramp of The Blasters, The Beat Farmers, Jason & the Scorchers, and Dwight Yoakam, he wandered upstream along the Hillbilly Highway until he rediscovered Johnny Cash and George Jones—artists he’d listened to as a kid in the cab of his Uncle Jack’s 18-wheeler.
Erik (under the nom de plume Cletus McCoy) is the longtime frontman of The Surreal McCoys a cowpunk “hipster doofus band” (as Mojo Nixon dubbed them) with two albums under their belt that—bolstered by airplay of the mashup single “Whole Lotta Folsom” on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country—enjoys 50K monthly listeners and has collected over 3.5 million spins on Spotify.
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123 Pleasant Street, 125 Pleasant St, Morgantown, WV 26505, United States
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